Dating your Ancestors is Complicated: The Strange Case of Homo Naledi
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
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Dating your Ancestors is Complicated: The Strange Case of Homo Naledi
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
Dreamocracy: vluchtelingen als expert-docenten op middelbare scholen
Door Freek Colombijn. Mijn ouders waren tieners toen de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbrak en in de twintig toen Nederland bevrijd werd. Ze hebben aan den lijve ondervonden hoe het is…
Review of ‘Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present’
Richard S. Newman’s recent book offers a new history of Love Canal, the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that became notoriously contaminated by buried chemical waste. As residents became…
Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grants
CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 SCHOLAR’S GRANTS INCREASED FUNDING BY JULIA CHILD FOUNDATION FOR GASTRONOMY AND CULINARY ARTS APPLICATION DEADLINE JUNE 2, 2017 C…
The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
The Pech, an Indigenous group in eastern Honduras, possess local knowledge, stories, and survival skills that are invaluable for knowing a place and its history. Christopher Begley We…
Antonio De Lauri: Times of walls: The politics of fencing in the contemporary world
In his well-known poem “Mending Wall” (1914), Robert Frost effectively depicted the act of walling: Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling…
Reading Marx with David Harvey
If you’ve ever wanted to do a close, guided reading of Marx’ work, you probably couldn’t ask for a better teacher than Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography…
The Fifth Beginning
Global cooperative networks such as the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, shown here responding to the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa, distinguish the “fifth beginning” from prior…
The Self-Construction of Black Women Physicists
image: slide with text: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of Washington DECOLONIZING SCIENCE BY RECONSTRUCTING OBSERVERS, with embedded image of racist phenotype comparisons of “Irish Iberian,” “An…
Lessons From a Forgotten Amazonian Slaughter
For decades, conservationists have viewed subsistence hunting by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon as a contributing factor to “empty forests”—forests where trees remain but wildlife is all but…
Anthropology Timeline
The Anthropology Timeline is a massive undertaking to chart the history of the discipline of anthropology. The timeline is an interactive site that charts anthropology’s history along two…
Book Forum — Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 by Todd Meyers
Andrew Brandel has organized an extraordinary and diverse set of commentaries on Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Duk…
Neanderthals, racism, science
This New York Times article offers an interesting discussion about how Western European scientific racism also played a significant role in how we classified and described Neanderthals. “Neanderthals…
Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
The word “Caucasian” is used in the U.S. to describe white people, but it doesn’t indicate anything real. It’s the wrong term to use! My colleague and one…
Who Started the First Fire?
Neanderthals were able to manipulate fire well before they came into contact with Homo sapiens. Starting fire, however, was an entirely different matter. David Williams In the 1981…
What’s Your Beef
How eating brisket shapes the future in the present. A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his…
Rice Reveals African Slaves’ Agricultural Heritage
Clues about the history—and survival—of African slaves in the Americas can be found in certain plants, such as rice. David Williams When Tinde van Andel purchased a small…
Book Forum –– Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo by Todd Meyers
When Nancy Rose Hunt suggests that her book “joins the ferment” of colonial aggressions and uncertainties “while taking up harm and pleasure in a shrunken colonial milieu and…
The Good Old Days
Every summer, festivalgoers gather throughout the American West to relax in the sunshine, smoke a little pot, and dance to the sweet, nostalgic sounds of bluegrass music. Bluegrass…
Bibliography for Critical Ecology
Since ecological metaphors, systems, and thinking are implicit to much of discard studies, we’re happy to share this crowdsourced bibliography on critical perspectives of ecology.
The Silk Ribbon of Highways
A thousand years ago, the Silk Road was in its heyday. Caravans hauling tons of commodities and luxury goods crisscrossed Asia and the Middle East from Xi’an, China,…
Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…